Archive | May 30, 2012

The Protestant and the Saint ~ by Catholic Glasses

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The Protestant and the Saint

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A Little Boy

picked up a “page” from a book

off a Hannibal Missouri Street;

of a Saint,

he was soon to meet.

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She taught him how

to read and write.

And, as a man,

he wrote “Huckleberry Finn.”

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Yet of all the tales,

that he could spin;

a work of nonfiction

would beckon him.

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Twelve years in France

researching his friend.

He owed her a debt,

so he began.

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He used the voice

of her Military Page.

For she taught him how to read and write,

from a “page” of her life.

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“This book gave me 10 times

the pleasure as all the rest,”

he prefaced, in his book, of his friend, the Saint.

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“Tears would well up in his eyes

and roll down his cheeks,

as he read “Joan of Arc”

to us kids, at night, by the fire,”

Twain’s Daughter Anne claimed.

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Now, they must of smiled big

from Heaven above;

when they taught me

how to read, then write.

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Now  I,

owe a great big debt

to the Protestant and the Saint.

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So, when life is over

and Eternity begun,

after Jesus and His Mother is kissed,

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I want to hug Mark Twain and Saint Joan of Arc

for the help of

a Protestant and a Saint!

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By Catholic Glasses

November 20, 2006

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How Old Is Your Church?

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If you are a Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex- monk of the Catholic Church, in the year 1517.

If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry.

If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560.

If you are a Protestant Episcopalian, your religion was an offshoot of the Church of England founded by Samuel Seabury in the American colonies in the 17th century.

If you are a Congregationalist, your religion was originated by Robert Brown in Holland in 1582.

If you are a Methodist, your religion was launched by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744.

If you are a Unitarian, Theophilus Lindley founded your church in London in 1774.

If you are a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1829.

If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1605.

If you are of the Dutch Reformed church, you recognize Michaelis Jones as founder, because he originated your religion in New York in 1628.

If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865.

If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year in which your religion was born and to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy as its founder.

If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as ‘Church of the Nazarene,” “Pentecostal Gospel.” “Holiness Church,” “Pilgrim Holiness Church,” “Jehovah’s Witnesses,” your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men within the past century.

If you are Catholic, you know that your religion was founded in the year 33 by Jesus Christ the Son of God, and it is still the same Church.

Read more: How old is your church? ~ EWTN.com